Aladdin

Script By Jon Rogers

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Roles

Roles

 

Ying Ton: He has been a market trader for as far back as he can remember. He wouldn’t say he was born to do it, but as his father, grandfather, great grandfather and so on were market traders he feels that, well why the hell not. He is good at what he does and is the official boss to Tiddle i and Po. He will never be millionaire, but the market makes a decent enough living though this can vary especially if Po has a hand in the ordering. On the whole life is good for Ying Ton.

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Tiddle i: Like Ying Ton, Tiddle i’s career as a market trader was determined for him as he also comes from a long line of market traders. He is not as bright as Ying Ton, but would like to think he is the second boss on the market stall and therefore can boss Po about. Well at least try! He will never be rich, but early on worked out what he wanted from life and feels he has a good work /life balance. So work as little as possible and live life as fast as possible. (He wishes!)

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Po: Po is Po. He is the first person in his family to work on a market stall. At school when he met the careers officer. They asked what he wanted to be. Po suggested a designer of injection seats for helicopters. The careers officer suggested he work on a market stall. Later on when Po was stressed at a job interview after being asked to go in the circle and sit in the corner, he visited the doctor. Who informed him he wasn’t clever enough to have a mental breakdown. Don’t under estimate Po, he has hidden talents. 

Dim: All he ever wanted to be was a Palace Official. Even as a child Dim would organize his toys and set them tasks to ensure the smooth running of the playroom. Like Ying Ton and Tiddle i his career path was mapped out for him and he knew that his childhood wish would be fore filled as soon as he was old enough he would go to work in the palace. He think he knows what is right for the Emperor and Empress and that royal protocol is everything.

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Sum: Like Dim he is cut from the same cloth and Palace Official was the only thing he ever wanted to be. Like Dim he is full of his own self importance and believe me he is important. Well in his eyes at least. Doing what is right, royal tradition, maintaining the image of the Emperor and Empress is what Sum lives for and all those around him know about it as well. Even if they don’t want to! Sum like Dim Lives to Work, not Works to Live very much unlike Ying Ton, Tiddle i and Po.

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Aladdin: The boy wonder or maybe boy blunder. Aladdin’s heart is in the right place. It is a just shame that his brain isn’t. Hard worker does not come into Aladdin’s vocabulary but loyal, solid mate and all round good egg does. He is always looking for the prize and to marry Yasmin would be the biggest prize off all. That fact that he has no royal lineage at all and the nearest thing he has to it, is his mother having a port and lemon in the Emperor’s Arms drinking house probably won’t help. Small beer for Aladdin he is a winner eventually.

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Widow Twankey: Aladdin’s longsuffering mother and laundry owner to the stars. Well stars is stretching it a bit. Love Island need a pillowcase washing at short notice once. Still that wouldn’t put Widow Twankey off. Running a laundry wasn’t always on the cards but life takes a different path when you least expect it. A career as a high flying executive within the Palace manufacturing department unfortunately was cut short after a mix up developing a new noodle snack. When asked to come up with some new flavour ideas, Rat and Bat sadly didn’t cut the mustard. Still despite that setback she is a successful small business owner and loving mother to Aladdin.

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Chop: A person of many words, many, many words. Chop really still doesn’t understand why he is such a great wordsmith. It could be something to do with using a dictionary as a pillow as a child growing up. Times were hard in the Chop house! Still to have a lot of words has proved useful when working in the Palace as guard. Either in confusing the Emperor or boring any attackers that they get so bored listening to Chop speak. They forget why they are attacking the palace in the first place.

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Suey: Chop’s mate and defender. In that Suey is always defending Chops use of language. Though Suey knows that Chop doesn’t really need to use so many words. Suey is always happy to go along with it, if only to see peoples reactions. Suey enjoys working as a Palace guard and having Chop along side is there is never a dull moment. Something always need guarding or someone always need repelling. Once that is done there is always a market trader or two to keep in their place.

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Emperor Ming: The Ming dynasty has been around along time and Emperor Ming loves being part of it. He loves his job, wife, daughter, subjects, kingdom, long walks on the beach, pee nicker larders and getting caught in the rain. Though maybe he is confusing himself with a corny pop song for some of his loves. That aside he tries to do the right thing for all. He is a gentle man, but do not upset him or be anyway unpleasant to those arounds him. Hopefully he feels that he is in touch with his subjects.

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Empress Ming: She does not suffer fools gladly, although her husband is the Emperor. She is the real power broker in this partnership. She knows what she wants and usually gets it. Do not cross her and like her husband do not threaten or anyway put down any members of her family and subjects. You have been warned. She believes in the royal lineage and the tradition that Dim and Sum work so hard to uphold. When she is not on Empress duties her hobbies include Clay Pigeon Shooting and riding her 500cc motor cross Motorbike.

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Princess Yasmin: A girl who wants more from life and not just to be married off to some chinless wonder or Tim nice but dim Prince to please her parents. No Yasmin wants to study, to better herself, to make a fairer society, improve the lot of people throughout the kingdom and generally leave her mark. Whether she can achieve all this in a two hour panto remains to be seen, but believe me she will have a jolly good go at it. Watch this space.  Oh and she loves Aladdin and would dearly love to marry him but of course on her terms. 

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Abanazar: As the song goes….’he is bad to the bone’ and as the other song goes….’born to be wild’ Abanazar does all these with spades on. He is bad. He knows it and to be frank doesn’t give a hoot to what other people think of him. He like many of the characters in this panto was born into the business. His whole family and those before him were a bad lot. So as he puts it…’just keeping the family tradition alive’. The magic came a bit later and he developed ‘bad magic’ into a fine art form that has led him onto even badder things. Did I say he was bad…because he is!

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Jean Genie: Straight outta the bottle, the Jean Genie try’s to do the right thing. Though having Abanazar as your master has been very hard. He can’t really remember where the David Bowie persona arrived but he likes it. Though being mistaken for every other David but Bowie he does find it rather a fag at times. He wishes is to do the right thing with his powers and most importantly get out of the contract with Abanazar. As he says ‘how hard can it be to leave a contract early?’ he is one of the good guys